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2020 Foresight for the Whistler Ski Season

2020 Foresight for the Whistler Ski Season

by Mary Charleson | May 25, 2020 | Canada, Travel industry news, When a pandemic strikes

If you’re an avid skier like me, you’re likely wondering what the next ski season will look like at Whistler. But, beyond the usual speculation about snowfall, the 2020/21 season is susceptible to where the current pandemic will leave us. It has been clear, for the...
Ice Skating on Lake Louise: The Essential Canadian Winter Experience

Ice Skating on Lake Louise: The Essential Canadian Winter Experience

by Mary Charleson | Feb 13, 2020 | Canada

Ever since seeing the Molson Canadian 2010 Winter Olympic commercial featuring a lone hockey player skating an open frozen lake, with a backdrop of mountains, the camera in pursuit from above as he gained speed chasing a puck, I have fantasized about skating an open...
16 Last minute gifts for travelers

16 Last minute gifts for travelers

by Mary Charleson | Dec 16, 2019 | Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Hawaii & South Pacific, South Africa, South America / Central America, USA

We’ve combed the internet for some fun, inspirational and useful gift items to put on your list this year, or under the tree for that hard to buy for traveler you know. Below you’ll find 8 useful, 4 cool and 2 inspirational gifts, plus 2 more that you...
Taking a life detour in a 1975 Trillium Trailer exploring beautiful British Columbia

Taking a life detour in a 1975 Trillium Trailer exploring beautiful British Columbia

by Mary Charleson | Oct 1, 2019 | Canada

– Guest post by Kim Little – It had been years of what friend’s hash tagged the #worstdivorceever, and it was almost over. Our family home was sold, and the buyer smelling a distress sale, had dictated the terms. That is how I became temporarily homeless...
Practicing a little “blind love” through a heightened awareness of all senses while traveling can be magical

Practicing a little “blind love” through a heightened awareness of all senses while traveling can be magical

by Mary Charleson | Jul 10, 2018 | Canada, South Africa

When I was in my final year of high school, I was hospitalized for a week with the sight in one eye threatened after an exercise band broke and impacted my eye, causing an internal bleed. I spent the entire time immobilized in bed with both eyes covered to limit...
Travelling with your teen: Memories to last a lifetime

Travelling with your teen: Memories to last a lifetime

by Mary Charleson | May 8, 2018 | Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Europe, USA

Author note: This piece was originally published in the Vancouver Sun in 2017. Having just set my son off at the airport for his 4th trip to Europe, and third time doing it solo, I am struck at the vision I had to travel as I did with him at the time of writing this...

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